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He is member of  the CERNA, The Ethics Committee on Research in Information Science and Technology of the Allistene Alliance in France, and chair of The IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems.

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She is a fellow of both the worldwide association of AI (AAAI) and of the European one (EurAI). She has also been president of IJCAI (International Joint Conference on AI), an executive councillor of AAAI, and the Editor in Chief of the Journal of AI Research. She is a member of the scientific advisory board of the Future of Life Institute (Cambridge, USA) and a deputy director of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (Cambridge, UK). She is in the executive committee of the IEEE global initiative on ethical considerations on the development of autonomous and intelligent systems and she is a member of the board of directors of the Partnership on AI, where she represents IBM as one of the founding partners.

She has been a member of the European Commission High Level Expert Group on AI and the general chair of the AAAI 2020 conference. She is an expert for the Reposible AI working group of the Global Partnership on AI. She will be the AAAI President in 2022-2024.

As a researcher, Rudy always looks at the 'soft side' of technology. For his master thesis in Design Management, he studied the factors that are decisive in the acceptance of radical technological innovations. Trust in technology appears to play a crucial role in this. In the Fontys  research group Futures Research & Trendwatching he researched the role of science fiction in future research and taught concept development and trend research for many years.

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Her passion for publishing traces back to her master's degree in Literature, Press and Publishing History from Università degli Studi di Milano.

Tracey leads Sense about Science’s work on the transparency of evidence used by governments in policy, to ensure that the public has access to the same evidence and reasoning as decision makers. This has included drafting the Principles for the Treatment of Independent Scientific Advice, which were adopted into the UK Ministerial Code in 2010, the creation of a public interest defence to libel in the Defamation Act 2013 and the Evidence Transparency Framework, used to audit UK government in 2016 and 2017 and adopted by government audit agencies around the world. In 2010, the Times named Tracey as one of the ten most influential figures in science policy in Britain and in 2014 she was recognised by the Science Council for her work on evidence-based policy making. In June 2017 Tracey was made an OBE, for services to science.

A regular public speaker and discussion chair, Tracey writes frequently about scientific evidence, policy and the public in national media. She has been a vocal critic of the idea of a ‘post-truth’ society and champion of the public interest in trustworthy evidence. She has written papers, periodicals and books on accountability for evidence, including Playing by the Rules (2013, 2016) co-authored with the late science journalist Michael Hanlon. She took up the same theme of holding authorities to account for evidence in her 2014 TEDx talk, The Power of Asking for Evidence.

Tracey has written and edited popular public guides to scientific research and led research on reliability of evidence, including the 2009 Peer Review Survey, the largest global survey of authors, reviewers and editors. Among her recent periodical publications: Goldacre B, Brown T. Fixing flaws in science must be professionalised. J Clin Epidemiol. July 10 2015; and Cossu et al, Lancet Commission: Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine, forthcoming.

Tracey is chair of the board of trustees of Jurassica, a £94 million project to bring the story of prehistoric discovery to life on Dorset’s Jurassic Coast and develop new understanding of extinction and biodiversity. She is a trustee of the Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science, and sits on the advisory board of OpenTrials. Tracey was a commissioner on the UK Drug Policy Commission from 2009 to 2012, and a trustee of Centre of the Cell, the first science education centre to be located within working biomedical research laboratories, until December 2013. The Royal College of Pathologists made Tracey a Friend of the College for her work in promoting public engagement and the creation of an outreach centre following a collapse of public confidence during the Alder Hey and Bristol scandals.

In 2016, he was appointed a fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry for his commitment to science, rational inquiry and public education. In 2019, he received a Humboldt Research Award from the Humboldt Foundation in Germany.

His research examines people’s memory, decision making, and knowledge structures, with a particular emphasis on how people update their memories if information they believe turn out to be false. This has led him to examine the persistence of misinformation and spread of “fake news” in society, including conspiracy theories. He is particularly interested in the variables that determine whether or not people accept scientific evidence, for example surrounding vaccinations or climate science.

His interest in the cognitive implications of climate change, and the conflict between human cognition and the physics of the global climate, has led him into research in climate science and climate modeling. As a result of his work in climate science he was appointed Visiting Scientist at the CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere laboratory in Hobart, Tasmania, in August 2017.

He has published more than 220 scholarly articles, chapters, and books, including numerous papers on how people respond to corrections of misinformation and what variables determine people’s acceptance of scientific findings. (See www.cogsciwa.com for a complete list of scientific publications.)

Professor Lewandowsky is an award-winning teacher and was Associate Editor of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition from 2006-2008. He also frequently appears in print and broadcast media and has contributed nearly 90 opinion pieces to the global media on issues related to his research.

He also serves as a council member for the Natural Environment Research Council, the United Kingdom’s environmental science funder, and is a trustee of the innovation foundation Nesta and Practical Action, an international development organization that uses technology to fight poverty.

She strongly believes that "Until all researchers understand the need to engage in dialogue with other parts of society, and until people understand that research is essential to the progression of society, VA will have a role to play."

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Frans developed an interest in the functioning of the human body and mind from an early age. Her parents were psychologists, which she says was a possible influence on her interest in the concrete and quantifiable. She studied biomedicine at Uppsala University and completed her PhD studies at Karolinska Institutet, studying the incidence of autism among children with relatively old fathers.

In 2013, Frans started a blog, and later became active on Twitter, in the aim of counteracting public misconceptions in science. In 2017, Frans published the book Larmrapporten, which aims to teach the public how to distinguish between good and faulty scientific claims. The same year she was awarded Stora Journalistpriset, the "Swedish Grand Prize for Journalism", in the category "Årets röst" (voice of the year). The reason given by the jury was "for fighting against resistance to facts and with scientific exactness debunking the Internet's tenacious myths, in an entertaining way".  Also in 2017, she was elected "Årets folkbildare" (Popular Educator of the Year) by Föreningen Vetenskap och Folkbildning for "her ability to, in a pedagogical and humorous way, spread knowledge and debunk myths and misunderstandings about science." In 2018, Frans was named as one of three new "Democracy Ambassadors" (demokratiambassadörer) by the Swedish government, working on the committee "Democracy 100 years" (Demokratin 100 år) to advance and promote the democracy in advance of its 100 year anniversary through dialogue and by building partnerships with and between different parts of society. Frans's second book Sant, falskt, eller mittemellan (True, false, or in between) was published in December 2018 and seeks to give scientific answers and explanations to common questions and myths. In 2019, Frans was once again named "Årets folkbildare". On July 13 2019 she hosted the radio show Sommar i P1.

Originally trained as a secondary English teacher, he worked for twelve years at the Open University as a producer of TV, radio and multimedia before joining the BBC as an executive producer of a number of national public engagement campaigns. He advises a number of national organisations on learning and engagement, including the National Trust and the Science Museum.

Representing STM in a variety of industry-wide standards organizations, projects and working groups, she serves as Director on the Board of IFRRO representing publishers and is Co-Chair of the RDA Interest Group on Data Publishing. She also represents publishers in advisory panels such as the CoData-ICSTU group for Data Citation, the NISO working group on Open Access Article Metadata, NISO’s business working group on Supplementary Journal Information, the DataCite working group on Certification Standards for Data centers, and is a member of Force11. She also coordinates the STM participation in the EU-cofunded projects, such as in the past PARSE.Insight and APARSEN (both on digital preservation) and ODE (Opportunities for Data Exchange) and on the Advisory Board of the 4C project (Collaboration on Clarifying the Costs of Curation).

Eefke has been active in academic publishing for more than 30 years (physics, mathematics, computer science) and in electronic product development (Scopus, ScienceDirect), holds a masters degree in public administration and started her working life as a writer/ journalist on research and technology (in NRC Handelsblad).

Mulligan's background is in archaeology; he has a BA Honours degree and a master's of science from the University of Leicester. He also has a diploma in Market Research from the Market Research Society.

Until 2000 he was full professor of communication technology policy at the Free University of Brussels, as well as director of the Centre for Studies on Media, Information and Telecommunication and was involved in science and technology assessment. He has been visiting professor at the University of Antwerp, the European College of Brughes and the University of South Africa and sits on several academic journals. He chaired the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Innovation and was a member of its Science Advisory Committee.

He has also been building a team of editors from across the Nature family — including Nature Communications, Nature Energy, Nature Physics, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Materials, Nature Chemistry, Nature Geoscience, Nature Cell Biology and Nature Plants — to live and work in China..

Her areas of policy work covered a wide range of EU priorities, including the EU Framework Programme; European Research Area; research infrastructures; research ethics and integrity; research assessment; university-business cooperation; regional innovation; gender issues in research; Digital Agenda and Open Science. She also worked on doctoral education through the EUA-Council for Doctoral Education (EUA-CDE), and coordinated scientific policy input to the European Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET-Plan) through the European Platform of Universities in Energy (EUA-EPUE).

Lidia Borrell-Damian holds a Doctorate in Chemistry (Chemical Engineering Specialty; Solar Energy) from the University of Barcelona. Prior to joining EUA, she was Director of Research at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona from 2003-2005. Before then she was Visiting Scholar at the University of Western Ontario (1999-2001) and at the North Carolina State University (1997-1998).